Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-13

representation OF giant business.
The miniature character feature is
so admirable in its proportion that
one loses the sense of the miniature"
character after time; counters, figures,
seats, desks, drapings are all so adjusted to
the hight of the fifty lads and little girls
who take part, arrayed az adults, that the
effect is to lead one to think he is really
witnessing
LIFE IN LILLIPuT.
The building referred to, beginning on
the left, has these departments and features
in order: Hat department, clothing de-
partment, time room, dressing room, gents
furnishing department, dress goods, do
mestics, cashiers department, packing
department, Office, notion department,
small wear department, fancy goods
department, mail order department,
cloak department, millinery department,
and in the center is the boot and shoe de-
partment. On the outside, at either end,
are large, half-oval show windows, display
ing first, mems and boys clothing; second,
millinery and fancy goods. In the center
OF the rear wall is the main street door and
at the north end public exit also. Above
the counters run the
AIR-LIEK RAILROADS
With all the latest improvements for con-
veylng goods to the packer and money to
the cashier. On the floor are miniature Law
figures for display of clothing. The
goods are all stored or displayed in each de-
partment precisely as in the home estab-
lishment, and every feature of each depart
ment is exactly reproduced upon dimin-
utive scale But the
MIRTHFUL AND INTERFERING
Begin with the activities of the actors.
These are all little children. from floor
walker 10 statesmen and customers to cash
Ter, but costumed and wigged TO appear as
men and women.
The scene begins with the appearance of
sWeepers and porters and then of the sales
people and clerical force and the superin-
tending fioor-walker, and then the entry of
early customers, and then, as the supposed
day advances, the fiocking in of all the va
rleues of people who trade in stores. To
name but portion of the characters repre-
sented is all space will now permit There
are statesmen and women, cash bows and
girl, clerks, cashiers and packers, Farmer
Doolitte and family, city "fiirts," the ward
politician and his wife with infant in
arms, the Digger buck and his squaw,
the organ grinder and his better half, the
widow in full mourning, the English tour
lst, policeman, next Chief of Police; cow
boys, fresh from Arizona; the selector,"
(the woman who prices but buys notl; book
agent, fruit-peddler, Quaker and Quak-
eress, hod-carrier, New York dudes --latest
importation); the young wife with child in
long clothes seeking the infants first shoes;
the bride, the groom, and so on down to,
or up to
SACRAMENTO VALLEY PRODUCTS
Iyptied by a boy of 8 years, who weighs
2oo pounds, and the slim lad of Is, who
stands feet inches in his stockings and
is as fat as hair-pin-both California
growth, and clean grit. The scenes panto-
mimically enacted by these actors must be
tancied, for We cannot fully describe them.
Mere reference alone must suffice to suggest
Their gravity and their righteousness.
FOR INSTANCE,
Here is the mother with her boy who will
not be fitted with "pantaloons" until a
pair is produced with pocket for the pistol
ne hts to 1t the farmer and wife, the latter
intent on trading and the former III draw
ing her attention to the overland railway
and the electric lights the book agent and
the fluctuations of the foor-walker with
that irreDressible," the lost boy and
his mischief; the pestilent organs grinder,
the woman who can't be fitted with shoes
and she who can the over jealous police
man; the simpering firt and the dangling
dude; the youth who kicks" against
shoes until his fond parent succumbs to
his demand for boots, and with red tops
and so Oh around scenes that are lifeiike,
merry and full of sharp criticisms. Indeed
this
WORLD OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY,
Gives all kinds OF queer" people the
opportunity to see themselves as others see
them, and he or she must be harder than
granite and colder than Arctic SHOWS, who
does not thaw into smiles and laughter
as the mercantile drama is witnessed.
Nor are such activities as special sales"
when people get something for almost moth
ing. omitted, for there is SPECIAL sale of
hosiery and one of remnants" when there
is jam and crush and grab all around
that is convuls;ve in its mirthfulness.
The children are admirably trained and
full Of original ideas, too, which constantly
crop out. The drama needs to be scent
cannot be described adequately The hand
some dressing of the miniature store was
done by G. ". Morton, and the costuming
and drilling of the children and working
out of the procession of comedies by Dover
Dali, both of whom deserve full credit for
so admirably working out the new idea -
OF Weinstock & Lubin.